Dev Dawn

My app is brilliant,
My app is pure.
I saw it running once.
Of that I’m sure.
…

It’s beautiful. It’s beautiful.
It’s beautiful, it’s true.
I saw my app, in my own mind’s eye,
And I don’t know what to do,
‘Cause I can’t make it come true.

Saturday, 30th April, 2006

The memory banks are fading fast, so I’m trying to get this done asap.

Saturday morning began at the crazy hour of 7.30am. Well, that’s not including breakfast, which one must do.

Building a web interface — using NetTalk 4 (Bruce Johnson)

It must have been the sleep in my eyes, the lack of caffiene or something, because I can’t remember a great deal about this talk. That’s not to say it wasn’t up to the great standards Capesoft set. It was.

I know the other guys (the Krew) came away with a far greater excitement for NetTalk4 than I could drum up in them. I’ve been working with NT4 (nice shortening) for a while now, since it was released I guess. It’s a very very exciting product.

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I made a lot of bad decisions, forgetful stuff, to do with the DevCon.

1. I forgot my digital camera. First massive mistake. I could have had so much fun with this baby.
2. I didn’t turn on reporter brain for most of the conference. Didn’t think about taking copious (or any) amounts of notes on the seminars.
3. Didn’t have agendas when talking to people (this may or may not be a bad thing, depending on where you stand), heh heh.
4. Didn’t do live updates on the blog. This would have been a nice touch. Plus wouldn’t have had to leave things to my faulty memory.

Day 2 has been mostly written, just applying some finishing touches.

New Terminology coined by Bruce Johnson, implemented and brought to life by Jono Woodhouse

WAC :: Wide Area Connection
LAC :: Local Area Connection

WAN’s and LAN’s are a thing of the past. So 20th Century. A new era has arrived, and it’s name is WAC. Phe3r the LAC.

Friday, 28th April, 2006

Our day began quite early for a family guy like myself :). Brett & I were waiting out the front of the pub (naturally) for the taxi at around 5am. Bill arrived just as the taxi pulled up, along with Adam who’d come for an early morning stroll.

John met us at the airport, and we boarded the lovely service that is JetStar. The flight was a generic, white-washed, ordinary flight. Of course, I can probably count more digits on my hands and feet than times I’ve flown in a plane. So that’s all relative.

Ahem.

Anyway, because of fog, smoke, or great maruading dinosaurs, we couldn’t land at the Avalon airport and were redirected to Melbourne. This turned out to be a boon as we were able to feast on some pretty luscious breakfast at one of the many wonderful cafe/eatery’s in Turak. At least I think it was Turak. It’s a cool name for a suburb anyway, so let’s just say it was Turak. Turak.

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Quick one from Brett:
ALL(’ ‘,12) ! Returns 12 spaces
Saves typing out 12 spaces and counting later when editing code!

Unfortunately for me, I discovered CSS Reboot only a week or so ago. Not enough time for me to worry about participating. But I do intend to give it a fair wack next year. In fact, before then if the time and muse takes me.